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The novel takes place in 1931 and begins with a suicide attack by a Japanese freighter that blocks the Panama Canal and is followed by a surprise attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy against the U.S. naval forces first outlined in Sea Power in the Pacific. In 1925, Bywater published The Great Pacific War expanding on his ideas about a future clash between Japanese and U.S. He rose to further public prominence with his expert coverage of the Washington Naval Conference, held between 19, predicting, among other things, Japan’s official positions on naval armament before they were made public. After working for British intelligence prior to the outbreak of World War I, he published Sea Power in the Pacific: A Study of the American-Japanese Naval Problem in 1921, in which he outlined the growing naval competition between Japan and the United Stated in the Pacific region. Hector Bywater was one of the preeminent naval analysts of his day. Bywater’s work of fiction is thought to have influenced Imperial Japan’s chief naval strategist and commander of the Imperial Navy’s Combined Fleet, Marshal Admiral Isoruko Yamamoto, when he was planning his naval campaign against the United States. naval forces in the Pacific, the Allies’ island hopping strategy used during the actual Pacific War, and the eventual U.S. The novel predicted a Japanese surprise attack on U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Decemfew people know that Japanese war plans were inspired by a 1925 novel titled The Great Pacific War,written by the British author Hector Bywater. As the United States commemorates the 76th anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack against the U.S.
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